@YEAH!
Seconded :O)
And I for one welcome our new and improved shiney orbiting overlords....
Posts by Steven
77 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Mar 2007
Hubble packing shiny new camera
Paris Hilton celebrates 28
Brit couple divorce over Sadville infidelity
MP calls for Jezza Clarkson's head
Barclaycard follows Barclays offline
Friday 3rd October 2008 19:46 GMT 
BC
This is precisely why when I received the letter informing me Morgan Stanley/Goldfish had been acquired by Barclaycard I rang them up and promptly cancelled my card with them.
Was perfectly happy with the service I'd received from MS up until then but having dealt with Barclays before I'd vowed that I'd never deal with any part of that organisation!
Virgin rejects $1m space sex offer
Get ready for the coming data centre crunch
LHC downed until after Xmas - Boo
Open Wi-Fi network wraps Mumbai man in bomb blast probe
Jeremy Clarkson tilts at windmills
Bloke finds illegal immigrants living in loft
Friday 13th June 2008 16:33 GMT 
If I'd bought the house...
... I'd be having a f**king word with the surveyor about that.
"Yes the electrics could really do with replacing but other than that the construction is sound...."
Except for the slight exception that the entire firebreak has been removed from the loft space and you've got some illegals camping in the loft!!!
lol :)
ISS toilet fails to suck
Vatican star watcher says aliens may be out there
El Reg celebrates 10th birthday
NASA gets intimate with Phobos
Document glitch sparks GTA IV ban scare
Virgin taps Boeing for 787 compensation
Red Green Ken v Porsche in battle of the polls
Prosecutors target first 'Facebook harassment' conviction
Disintegrating wind turbine caught on camera
Redmond puts key Vista update on ice
Israel gets kosher phone service
Transport Dept. IT: 23 years late, £100m over-budget
Thursday 31st January 2008 12:32 GMT 
@Neal
Neal I think £200M is going to turn out to be chicken feed compared to the overall budget once everything is added up (not that we'd ever get given a figure that was anywhere near correct in any case, I dare say you'll end up being screwed out of more than £200M when all said and done).
What makes me laugh is that people in the rest of the UK don't want it, no fucker in London I know wants it and yet we're all collectively going to end up picking up the tab. And don't get me started about tickets, no doubt they'll all be snaffled up by the corporates and the man in the street if he's lucky will get tickets to some obscure event that nobody has heard of! So we won't even be able to go and bloody see it!!
I live and work less than 10 minutes drive from the site and short of people in the building trade in the area its of no use whatsoever to the local workforce. We've had several clients who's premises were on the site who have had compulsory puchase orders issued against them and received a fraction of the lands true worth so as we see again from this government the man in the street is the first to be bent over.
Thursday 31st January 2008 10:48 GMT 
To be fair...
...only being £100M over budget by government standards is quite good. You should wait and see how much the Olympics in 2012 is going to set us all * back.
* Of course when I say all I mean the council tax payers of London, because despite this being a HUGE benefit for the whole country (the politicians emphasis not mine) we are the only one's that get to pay for it! How lucky are we! Because its not like my wallet doesn't get raped enough by the state as it is. We'll be paying for this for the next 20+ years and for what, a overgrown sports day for 3 weeks.
PH Icon because even Paris knows, that blows.
Spy satellite to slam Earthside
IBM hands server tech to Lenovo
100Mbit/s sewer broadband rollout coming your way
Polish scientists quantify perfect legs
Thursday 17th January 2008 14:22 GMT 
You just knew...
...when I checked my El' Reg RSS feed in Firefox I just knew that Mr Haines would be the author of such a fine article!!
Keep up the good work sir! Although I feel it only appropriate that on behalf of the El' Reg's readership I request that you use your powerful position in international journalism to request a similar study concentrating on Bulgarian airbags!
Hoax: German IT boss sacks three non-smokers
Office update disables MS files
MoD sorts out 'turkey' helicopters for Xmas
Thursday 20th December 2007 15:52 GMT
VFR
Exactly how the f*** can a Chinook which im assuming is laden with avionics not be capable of flying on instruments?
Or is the a case of health and safety gone mad and the MoD not 'knowing' how to certify the aircraft as I refuse to believe that Boeing would supply an army spec helicopter to any airforce that wasn't capable of flying on a cloudy day!??!
I mean christ there are flying 40+ year old gas tanks (Nimrod's) in service in a Afghanistan and nobody is concerned about them but heaven forbid our lads could get their hands on some up to date kit that doesn't have the correct paperwork, that would be far to dangerous!!
Cupid Stunts.
Canadian cable giant slips Yahoo! name onto Google home page
'Beer Hunter' lifts 40,000 pints of Guinness
Met Police to pilot Tasers
New emails address you by name, then try to hose your PC
Beer set to hit four quid a pint
Frenchman spit-roasts 550kg camel
Disability law can protect alcoholic workers
Monday 19th November 2007 10:21 GMT
Sick Note
"Sorry I've not been in work for the last week but I've been off my face after a Georgie Best style bender and have only just remembered where I live.
Oh and if you try and sack me I'll take you to a tribunal as your victimising my 'disability'."
Utter joke, who'd be an employer in the UK.
Woman finds boyfriend dead in catflap
Plastic police to enforce London bag ban?
1and1's dedicated servers go titsup
Plan for 20mph urban speed-cam zones touted
Tuesday 16th October 2007 15:27 GMT 
To be honest...
...it's really just a case of natural selection. If people are stupid enough to run out in front of me I’m doing the world a favour by turning them into fender meat and I should therefore receive a discount when my road tax comes up for renewal.
I shall expedite the mater to my MP forthwith!
Airbus delivers first A380
Suicide website creator arrested for murder
Ohio docks official one week's holiday for data breach
Thursday 11th October 2007 10:31 GMT
@Chris C
Common Chris don't be as slow as the guy that lost the tape!
One would assume that the bulk of the $3m would be spent on arranging credit protection facilities for those that have had their details compromised rather than just sending them a letter informing them of the incident.
Certainly I've seen other large organisations offer this service for 12-24 months after the disclosure to those affected, its the least they can do.
Google sued for 'crimes against humanity'
Windows Server 2008 'brisket' release delayed
Channel 4 cans Celebrity Big Brother
Teen sticks Xbox 360 power supply in bowl of water
Travelocity accidentally books 1,458 trips between US and Cuba
Friday 17th August 2007 13:50 GMT
Mr President el Cabron!
And which country do you think has done more than any other to keep Cuba the way it is?
Yes you guessed it, those good 'ole boys in the US of A, perhaps without 50 years of trade embargo's Cuba wouldn't be the way it is. Perhaps if the US concentrated on matters a little closer to home rather than persecuting a Caribbean island < 100 miles away the people of Cuba would have a better standard of living. And before someone trots out the Cuban missile crisis as an excuse, this all started way before that happened.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
